Making Manufacturing Analytics and AI Matter - The Survey

About this episode

The episode explores the latest survey results on analytics and AI in manufacturing with insights from Julie Fraser.

What’s really driving success with analytics and AI in manufacturing? In this episode, we dive into the latest industry survey results with Julie Fraser of Tech-Clarity to uncover what’s working, what’s not, and what leading manufacturers are doing differently. Don’t miss this data-driven conversation that puts real-world insight behind the buzz. This full survey report is available from MESA. It represents the next installment in the biennial survey that MESA has been creating for 2 decades now. There is a wealth to learn from our history of these surveys, from both current state as well as the trends that we can observe through the 21st century.

People in this episode

Host: MESA Knows Smart Manufacturing

Guest: Julie Fraser

Topics covered

• manufacturing analytics
• AI in manufacturing
• industry survey
• data-driven insights
• trends in manufacturing

Keywords

• manufacturing
• analytics
• AI
• survey
• Tech-Clarity
• MESA
• data-driven

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Tech-Clarity, MESA

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